Sioux City Social Work Pioneer
Sioux City social work pioneer
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It's scenarios like this that University of Iowa alumna Meg Bessman-Quintero, a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW)—the only bilingual, master's-level mental health therapist practicing in the Sioux City area—works hard to avoid. … local …
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Iowa Veterans Home leader is criticized
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Ken Briggs, a former Air Force chaplain who is the veterans representative on the Iowa Mental Health Planning Council, said residents of the veterans home have told him they are no longer treated with respect and dignity. “People stated that it was not …
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'On the Same Page' – Debating incarceration rates and the justice center
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I have worked on issues of disparities in the courts for years, starting in the 1980s when I was the president of the Black Hawk County NAACP and a commissioner with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission. So this is not a new issue for me. I see two …
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Youth drug, alcohol use on slight decline
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The numbers of the Iowa Youth Survey are the annual report given to the community by Substance Abuse Treatment Unit of Central Iowa. The surveys were taken by 918 youth in Marshalltown in the fall of 2012 in sixth, eighth and 11th grades. Overall there …
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